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Cells From Liposuction Function As Stem Cells?

Posted by Hemos on from the and-make-fine-soap-products dept.

texchanchan writes "Plastic surgeon Peter Fodor MD filtered stem cells out of fat sucked from people's oversized body parts, then cultured them into 'bone, cartilage, skeletal muscle and nerve cells.' At the rate of 10,000 stem cells per cm3 that's a lot of stem cells. Combine that with this and you might be on the road to regeneration. And, you can have your stem cells banked for later disasters after your liposuction."

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  1. Damn by Spicy+Bisquit · · Score: 4, Funny

    And all this time I have been using it to make plastic explosives. Stupid Brad Pitt.

  2. That'll be my excuse from now on... by fatphil · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not fat, I'm merely continually regenerating.

    FatPhil

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  3. Yay! by MarkusH · · Score: 2, Funny
    Every 100 cubic centimeters of bone marrow yields up to 10,000 stem cells, Fodor told Reuters Health. But the same amount of fat contains a million stem cells.

    So does this mean the fatter I get, the more stem cells I'll have to repair my body later in life? Quick, somebody hand me that tub of Ben & Jerry's!

  4. Better Living Through Fat by Tropaios · · Score: 2, Funny

    In related news: Through selling their fat to science, millions of fat, ugly, poor people became slender, beautiful, rich people, tusly throwing off the delicate natural balance where 90% of the population is unfit (Darwinally speaking) to breed, leading to a previously unimaginable population boom as people proceed to "get it on", which causes widespread overpopulation (although skinny people do admittedly take up significantly less room than their beefier counter-parts), mass starvation (which in a poetic justice sort of way leads to more skinny people, sex, and babies, rinse, lather, repeat), and ultimately the demise of Western Civilization. But what a way to go ;)

  5. compare the costs... by morcheeba · · Score: 3, Funny

    Liposuction fee = $2049
    Stem cell processing = $1200
    Stem cell storage = $100/yr

    The self-storage option begins to look attractive!

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  6. Extra Body Parts by Eric+Damron · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Plastic surgeon Peter Fodor MD filtered stem cells out of fat sucked from people's oversized body parts..." "Combine that with this and you might be on the road to regeneration."

    Yeah... I knew that... I'm not fat, I'm saving up body parts in case I need them.

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  7. Finally, I feel useful by rjamestaylor · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hereby offer my vast stores of lipids for the benefit of humanity.

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    -- @rjamestaylor on Ello
  8. Why I am afriad of cloning. by mcg1969 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cloning theoretically makes men unnecessary.

    Once human cloning has been perfected, and once women figure out how to change the oil in their own cars (*), men are toast.

    (*) Not that all men do; but if you look at the gender breakdown of your average Jiffy Lube you'll know what I mean.